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Today is
Wednesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2014. There are 336 days left in the year.

Highlights in History

• In
1843, William McKinley (right), the nation’s 25th president, was born in Niles,
Ohio.

• In
1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem
The Raven was published in the
New York Evening Mirror.

• In
1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched
Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

• In
1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school that trains guide dogs to assist
the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank.

• In
1964, Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear-war satire
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, starring Peter
Sellers (left) and George C. Scott, premiered in New York, Toronto and London.

• In
1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
to the White House after the establishment of diplomatic relations.

•
Ten years ago: In a prisoner exchange, Israel freed 400 Palestinians and about 30
other Arabs while Hezbollah released a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three
Israeli soldiers.

•
Five years ago: Declaring that ending pay disparity is not just a women’s issue,
President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, giving workers more time to take
their pay discrimination cases to court.

•
One year ago: BP closed the book on the Justice Department’s criminal probe of its
role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf of Mexico oil spill, with a U.S. judge agreeing to
let the London-based oil giant plead guilty to manslaughter charges in the deaths of 11 rig workers
and pay a record $4 billion in penalties.

Thought for Today

“Any idiot can face a crisis — it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” — Anton Chekhov,
Russian author and playwright (born this date in 1860, died in 1904)